Vote or Die….literally in some cases.

Election Day – The single most polarizing day that defines the underlying disparity between democracies, industrialized nations, and progressive countries populated with innovative minded citizens from their adversaries. A day in which individuals are stripped down of anything and everything deemed to have individual worth and the playing field is leveled with a simple single vote per person.

Religion is most often the scapegoat for brewing hatred and the infliction of terror, but in the modern times it is not the driving force, just the convenient patsy. Freedom which is expressed through public elections is what most strikes fear in the minds and hearts of those who prefer to oppress.

Certainly elections are held the world over, but the truth is that most are held under the real fear that the simple act of showing up to vote could cost one their life and almost equally as terrifying is that regardless of their vote or the number of votes cast, an outcome was well determined prior election day. To some it’s just a purple dye stained thumb, visible proof of a vote cast, but to those with the purple thumb it might possibly be the most cherished empowering act of their life.

Every recognized nation on the planet bares a flag that carries deep symbolic meaning and equally as deep is the pride for that flag and the, at all costs, protection and defense of said flag. But at the end of the day, people can burn and desecrate a flag, which is no doubt troubling because of the symbolism, but the real hope of these would be flag burners is to disrupt free, democratically based elections. All people from every religion in every social class representing every gender being able to cast a free and equal vote is what fuels the hatred.

The Fourth of July, Easter, Christmas, New Years Eve, Memorial Day, Veterans Day etc all would seem like ideal days for hopeful terrorists to unleash some concocted plan and really attack the morale of a nations people during times of celebration, while also trying to prop up some sort of mite and credibility they want others to fear they posses. But Election Day is the day Democracies cherish, the one day that defines a nation comprised of every conceivable background, Election Day allows real mite, importance, credibility, tolerance and freedom to be the virtue by which everyone stands.

Go Vote, or don’t bitch!